As the Title of the song suggests, this song depicts the uneven/unfair odds of a young child navigating all the confusion, neglect, and darkness that follows when the child looses its parents.
The mother dies likely of prolonged health problems that takes its emotional toll upon the father, who is lost to something more mysterious, as the opening line indicates "knew your father" (past tense) ...
My interpretation is that the single father (widower) of a helpless child is hurt, angry and abusive toward the child. He "curses" the child and woes his own plight to the point that the child is left with fresh wounds from dad ... and no mother to help and no expectation that the child could possibly understand what is going on... according to the voice of the new caretaker ... the guardian.
The song is a tender recital of hope and empathy ... a voice of understanding to help a child now in their care.
Here are the lessons the song imparts to this "broken heart" as the child becomes a "mended heart":
1) your father loved your mother but couldn't "return" from the grief of the loss of your mother
2) forgive your father for when he was verbally abusive/neglectful
3) As your guardian, foremost is my goal to nurture your pain with God's love.
4) Trust that as unlikely as it may seem ... this truth is demonstrated as you live (what life you can in your broken state) the act of living slowly overcomes all that surrounds you that is not living, like a seed that is living overcomes the dirt that buries it over time.
5) See as years go on? You are stronger. You are mended. See point 4.
6) Growth is not forgetting the pain of losing your mother ... you will always remember that pain, but even all that darkness is not pointless. Its not designed as a blessing and we don't have to pretend that it is all fine ... Yet there is something "in it" for you, something to grasp in all this chaos that is redemptive and enriching: “Darkness exists to make light truly count”
And so it goes ... the truth is not taught it is demonstrated. There is a reason that a jeweler displays their diamonds on the darkest velvet they can find ... and there is a reason that God permits what He could prevent. Would we notice the "light" / "life" if not for contrast against all this "dirt" / "earth" / "darkness" ?
As the Title of the song suggests, this song depicts the uneven/unfair odds of a young child navigating all the confusion, neglect, and darkness that follows when the child looses its parents. The mother dies likely of prolonged health problems that takes its emotional toll upon the father, who is lost to something more mysterious, as the opening line indicates "knew your father" (past tense) ... My interpretation is that the single father (widower) of a helpless child is hurt, angry and abusive toward the child. He "curses" the child and woes his own plight to the point that the child is left with fresh wounds from dad ... and no mother to help and no expectation that the child could possibly understand what is going on... according to the voice of the new caretaker ... the guardian.
The song is a tender recital of hope and empathy ... a voice of understanding to help a child now in their care.
Here are the lessons the song imparts to this "broken heart" as the child becomes a "mended heart": 1) your father loved your mother but couldn't "return" from the grief of the loss of your mother 2) forgive your father for when he was verbally abusive/neglectful 3) As your guardian, foremost is my goal to nurture your pain with God's love. 4) Trust that as unlikely as it may seem ... this truth is demonstrated as you live (what life you can in your broken state) the act of living slowly overcomes all that surrounds you that is not living, like a seed that is living overcomes the dirt that buries it over time. 5) See as years go on? You are stronger. You are mended. See point 4. 6) Growth is not forgetting the pain of losing your mother ... you will always remember that pain, but even all that darkness is not pointless. Its not designed as a blessing and we don't have to pretend that it is all fine ... Yet there is something "in it" for you, something to grasp in all this chaos that is redemptive and enriching: “Darkness exists to make light truly count”
And so it goes ... the truth is not taught it is demonstrated. There is a reason that a jeweler displays their diamonds on the darkest velvet they can find ... and there is a reason that God permits what He could prevent. Would we notice the "light" / "life" if not for contrast against all this "dirt" / "earth" / "darkness" ?